Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 2004
204 pages
978-0-8157-9887-3 (ISBN)
Description
Fourth in a series of reports on the changing nature of public service in government and the nonprofit sector, Pathways to Excellence focuses on a unique survey of contemporary thinking about creating effective nonprofit organizations. Based on interviews with 250 leading thinkers from the worlds of philanthropy, scholarship, and consulting, as well as 250 executive directors of some of the nation's most effective nonprofits, the book argues that there is no one best way to higher performance. Although higher performance clearly requires a commitment to excellence, it can be achieved along more than one pathway using one of several different strategies. Pathways to Excellence shows that every nonprofit organization can improve¿no matter how well or poorly it is currently performing¿often by taking simple first steps up a development spiral to high performance.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-9887-3 (9780815798873)
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Paul C. Light
Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence
Book
02/2002
Brookings Institution
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Person
Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University. He is also Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he founded the Center for Public Service. Light is the author of numerous books on public service and management, among them Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence (2002), Government's Greatest Achievements (2002), Making Nonprofits Work (2000), and The New Public Service (1999).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Table of Contents
- Chapter One: The Nonprofit Present
- Chapter Two: Imagining a Nonprofit-like Future
- Chapter Three: Views from a Distance
- Chapter Four: Views from the Front Lines
- Chapter Five: Pathways to Excellence
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Notes
- Index
